In Terrifying Interview, William Barr Goes Full MAGA (“Barr’s long, detailed interview with Jan Crawford suggests the rot goes much deeper than a simple mania for untrammeled Executive power. Barr has drunk deep from the Fox News worldview of Trumpian paranoia. It is hard to convey how far over the edge Barr has gone without reading the entire interview, which lasted an hour. But a few key comments illustrate the depth of his investment in Trump’s perspective. Barr, as he has done repeatedly, provides a deeply misleading account of what Robert Mueller found…Everything Barr has said and done during this investigation tells us he is not lying about this belief. The terrifying truth is that he all but surely believes every word.”)

Why Mitch McConnell Outmaneuvers Democrats at Filling the Supreme Court (“Democrats are different. Consider what happened after McConnell blocked the Garland nomination. After a few days of perfunctory outrage, most Democratic politicians dropped the issue. Neither President Obama nor Hillary Clinton, in their speeches before the Democratic National Convention, in July, 2016, even mentioned Garland—or the Supreme Court. Its future was apparently something that neither of them wanted to discuss, or thought that their party, or the nation, wanted to hear about.” Yep, in this way, Democrats completely suck.)

Rampage in Virginia Beach: 12 Are Killed at Municipal Center (“A city worker fired on colleagues as he stalked several floors of the building before dying in a shootout with the police.
Nine other people were injured. “This is the most devastating day in the history of Virginia Beach,” Mayor Bobby M. Dyer said.”)